McCoy v. State

Gould, Associate Justice.

Appellant, McCoy, and one Don Love were jointly indicted for theft of two hogs from Isaac Thompson. The evidence on which appellant was convicted is, in substance, as follows:

Thompson testified that two hogs, one black and one white, worth about $20 each, were stolen out of his pen, in the city of Galveston, on the night of November 16, 1874. He saw and fed them on the night they were taken, and missed them on getting up very early next morning. He saw where two planks had been broken off the pen, and corn scattered from the broken place in the pen to Don *617Love’s…